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I am planning on fishing in Yellowstone lake this July. I know I need a permit for the park, but do I need a Wyoming non-ersident license also?
Any spinning lure suggestions for that time of year? I plan on using ultra-light spinning tackle with 2-4lb mono.
thanks pardners!!
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No Wyo. license needed.. IIRC your spin tackle needs to be "lead free" so Id look aty Mepps and Panther Martins size 0 thru 4...the Panthers make a "lead Free" version..) Habitually the Cutts are relatively close to shore..within about 50 yds or so....
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Sounds like fun. If memory serves, Yellowstone lake is pretty windy in July?
Have I got that right,Tom?
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You now have to buy a permit to fish in Yellowstone, but you don't need a state license. Kill all the Lake Trout you catch, too . . . And have fun!
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It can be a windy SOB on the lake. Lead free on lures, if you're in Jackson - check out the Snake River Angler, they contacted a company to make lead free Panther Martin type lures, called Whistle Pigs. They work well. I always launched from Grant Village/West Thumb. You can work the shoreline right from the ramp around the edge of the Thumb. I never left W. THumb due having a small craft and scary, high winds sometimes. On the NW side of the ramp a little ways is a geyser basin, cuttys stack here, you can get them on hardware and with the fly rod using orange or blood colored leaches. Keep the Lakers, let the Cutties go.
IF you are there to fish, dont overlook Lewis Lake. The best lake fishing in the park IMO. You dont need to go all the way to the channel either, I wouldn't. Again, blood and orange leaches, panther martins, Vibrax and spoons with some orange on them. The brown trout are the best eating fish I have ever had.
I always found it funny that the Park Circus won't let you fish with lead, yet they let you use a lead anchor. I unfortunately left a 30lb lead pyramid anchor on the bottom of the Lewis Lake one spring day right after ice off....
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Has anyone ever used a "jakes" lure there?
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I say get the permit to fish "The Thumbs" also.... Had a hoot a few years back!
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Jakes spin-a-lure is one of the best trout lures around. If I'm fishing trolling in a boat I use the bigger one, and if I'm casting and reeling I use the Li'l Jake. Both are great.
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Jakes "paper clip" works just fine on Jellystone and every other trout lake I've tossed them into.
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What colors? for spinner & spoons, here in the south I usually use black,white,yellow. What colors for the trout up there?
thanks for the help
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I liked using the Yellows, reds, and gold when I fished Yellowstone Lake.
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Krocodile Spoons in hammered brass with orange stripe, silver with yellow or red stripe or straight yellow Krocodile has always worked well for me. I like Blue Fox - Vibrax Spinners in green, gold or silver. Blue sometimes too.
Lewis is one of the better lakes to fly fish too.
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Jake's Spin o lure gold with red spots is the lure for the cutts in Yellowstone lake. I've caught lake trout with them too. Last year in July we were catching as many lake trout as cutts. Someone above stated that the cutts are usually within 50 yards of shore and I'd say that's been my experience as well. Be sure not to keep any cutts and they want you to kill any lake trout even if you don't want them.
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